a tough day today – back in class after 5 days off – my autistic boy very difficult – tantrums all day … so a nice surprise to get some extra computing power put into my classroom – i forgot to take pix but will do tomorrow …

basically i’m trialling a ‘thin client’ system called softxpand and have one computer and 4 workstations set up (lovely, shiny new flat screens and all!)

our technician has set it up for me to trial and i will be keeping a log of PMIs and activity – both for the vendor and for our board (cos if it’s good i’m gonna want to keep it and will need to show how i’ve been using it)

my kids all wrote letters to the boss today asking for us to be the ones to get the computers – we weren’t expecting it to happen so fast!

DLC #3 – literacy – this time about nouns, verbs, adjectives, and simple grammar conventions

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i think i’ll trial as a whole class activity in the computer lab – working in pairs

DLC #2 Simple circuits

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i’ll trial this with a small group

i love this site … you can make quick 30 sec videos with still shots … i used some pictures from last weeks camp

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thanks to my long-suffering teenage son …

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i’ve had a go using animoto but wanted to try something that could be used in the classroom

here’s #1

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found this whilst clicking links

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